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Be with me always⁠—take any form⁠—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XVIIn context
- Life & Death
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Goncourt brothersEdmond de Goncourt (1822-96) and Jules de Goncourt (1830-70), French writers. The Goncourt Journals (1888-96; repr. in Pages from the Goncourt Journal, ed. by Robert Baldick, 1962), entry for 15 Nov. 1859
Whoso loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. V
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861How Do I Love Thee? (1850), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XLIIIIn context
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!⁠—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861How Do I Love Thee? (1850), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XLIIIIn context
- Life & Death
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love’s sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XIV
Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning1812–1889
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning1812–1889Men and Women (1855), “Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
Robert Browning1812–1889“Never the Time and the Place” (1883).
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides,⁠—one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her!
Robert Browning1812–1889One Word More (1855), Stanza xvii.
Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Robert Browning1812–1889Meeting at Night (1845)In context
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
- Life & Death
There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love.
Sandra Bullockborn 1964Parade interview (2009)
- Race